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Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...history of the making of kente and adinkra discuss the role of the market place in the changing history of kente and adinkra making...Textiles in Ghana: 1 The meanings and values of textiles in Ghana - This course looks at three kinds of textile used and marketed in Kumasi and its surrounding towns in Ghana – the hand-made textiles of kente and adinkra and industrially...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...Family and friends are also usually easier to persuade. Sharing a history and a social bond means they are more likely to support and buy into the vision of the entrepreneur. But tensions may arise from accepting money from family and friends. Rarely is it an outright gift. And there are differences between family and friends giving a loan but having no involvement in...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...history I share with my family, and the connections and allegiances I have with close friends. I’ll even use it in relation to our cheeky dog Daisy, the music of Tom Waits, Sunday morning lie ins and many other things. Clearly, whatever love is, it spans a great deal of emotional and experiential territory. Needless to say, I’m not the first to notice this. For...
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Article 5 mins
Key events in Scotland, 1920s-2016: A timeline
Society, Politics & Law

Key events in Scotland, 1920s-2016: A timeline

An interactive timeline of the most important events in Scottish political, cultural and economic history...Use the timeline to explore key moments in Scotland's history. You can see some of these locations on a map.
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Activity 15 mins
What does Marine LePen plan for France?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Marine LePen plan for France?

...families to France (Le Pen underplays how difficult it already is) and asylum seekers will have to make their applications at French embassies and consuls outside France. The fight against Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism will be ramped up, with the creation of a new anti-terrorist agency. ‘Intelligent protectionism’ France’s prosperity, Le Pen argues, depends...
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Article 5 mins
World-Changing Women: The Biographies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: The Biographies

Delve through these courageous tales of women who changed the world and read the full story the history books left out...Like this? Try a free history course Take it further with an Open University degree
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Article 5 mins
Black British Jazz
History & The Arts

Black British Jazz

...history of Black British Jazz and the stories of the artists who have performed it. This video looks at the history of jazz and how the story dates back as far as 1919, documenting how successive waves of black musicians have contributed to developing new and uniquely British sounds, as well as addressing the problematic issues surrounding race and cultural identity......
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Video 7 mins
Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...history in forms of monumental commemoration, but should they also encourage us to reconsider our response to similarly monumental figures in our literary history? [Black Lives Matter Protest, Bristol, UK - the statue of Edward Colston, a slave trader, being thrown in the harbour] 7 June 2020, the Edward Colston statue was pulled down then pushed into Bristol Harbour...
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Article 10 mins